SACRIFICE

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(taken from the weekly sermon at http://www.aboutthelambsbookoflife.net

SACRIFICE

March 30, 2002

Unto the Church of God and all who are called to be saints of Christ: All Hail: Is it well with thee?: I am well in my longsuffering; which end is the salvation of God. May the Almighty God heal and comfort the sick and shut-in: and may He bless us all with the glory of His presence.

My brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ: On this day which the Lord our God has hallowed, and sanctified, as the Sabbath for all that seek the kingdom of God, I cry out to the Father in the presence of His glory, and with the mind of His Christ, in praise and worship for the Creator of all things. For I have labored diligently for my God with gladness of heart, to preach His gospel to the world, that the twelve tribes of Israel be gathered from out of their places, and the lost sheep of Israel be led home. Even for the Gentiles have I suffered in my labor, to enter into unwelcome places, that one among them might hear the voice of truth, and accept correction, and enter into the true body of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. In my patience and in my trust do I make my sacrifices to the Lord, that I be found a worthy servant before His presence.

I thank God today for fulfilling the dreams of holy men: and for keeping us from falling: and for presenting us faultless before the presence of His glory. I thank God today for sending Prophet William Saunders Crowdy, whom the world had forgotten, but shall remember forevermore. I thank God today for enabling us to fulfill His work in the true name of His Son Jesus Christ. I thank God today for this anniversary of the first year of my ministry, which is even the beginning of a new year. I thank God today for sending me an angel for a wife: for she is the glue of my vessel: and the mate of my soul.

To all who have written their love to me, to encourage me, and to add blessings upon me: I pray this hour to our Father which art in heaven, that He reign down the treasure of His kingdom upon your heart, that you be filled with His Holy Spirit, and given the crown of His life. I thank God today for the gift you gave me, which is an open ear.

Let today be known as a day of atonement for all the earth: that all manner of sin and blasphemy be forgiven. For I offer as a sacrifice my humility; and my love for my enemy; praying that all men might be saved. Let us therefore offer the sacrifice of our praise to God, which is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to God continually. For by the power of prayer are miracles done: and by the power of prayer is worthiness upheld. So let no man lay to rest without prayer: and let no man rise from his rest without prayer. For in prayer we offer up a spiritual sacrifice of communication: and the giving of our own time.

Beloved: I pray that every man be free of sin: for in sin can no man be saved. He that had been lifted out of sin, but fell back into sin unwillingly, let him not stay in sin: for the Father is faithful to lift you up and clean you again, that you be found without spot or wrinkle. For we are not sent as saints to ignore the sheep that has fallen into filth, but to sacrifice our lives that our brothers and sisters might be redeemed from the error of their ways. For Jesus Christ sacrificed his life that we who are sinners might live: Are we not then to sacrifice our lives that our brothers and sisters might live? It is written: ⌠Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends■ (St. John 15:13). My brothers and sisters, even my neighbors, are they not also my friends? Let a man read in the sermon archives, A Relationship with God: for any man who is a friend of God is a friend of mine. But any man that is not a friend of God is not a friend of mine. Indeed, no man that loves the world is a friend of God.

Now if a man sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, is it not as it is written: ⌠For if we sin wlfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins■ (Hebrews 10:26). What then shall come upon that man, who shall have no means for atonement in that great Day of Judgment? For if any man think that any part of the filth in this world shall be saved, let him think again. For Jesus prayed not for the world (St. John 17:9); but was sent to redeem the inhabitants of the world, that a new heaven and earth be done. So be not deceived, that you believe you can be saved in sin: for in sin can no man be saved. So if one from among us should fall, let him not fall willfully. For the man that fall willfully seek the life of sin in his heart: but the man that fall unwillingly shall rise again on his own because his heart seek the redemption of Christ. Thus, in these days at hand, seven times shall a just man fall and be able to rise again: but the eighth time is wickedness; and his fall shall become mischief. I pray you hear those words and take them to heart: for such shall be from this day on. Let the counting begin for every man; even me, my brethren. And I say these words, not with my own tongue, but with the tongue of Christ, that if my brother or sister fall to sin in the knowledge of the truth, they might be picked up seven times, which are the seven Spirits of God (Revelation 5:6). This is the Spirit of Grace bestowed upon us this day by reason of our acceptable sacrifices. For we have neglected the things that follow after the world, that we might be holy men before God. We have suffered for the Lord in ways that men cannot see; because our suffering is internal. I pray that men repent from the things of the world: for such things are not acceptable sacrifices to God. Is Easter a sacrifice to God? Verily, it be not: but a day of honoring the orgies of the Great Whore. Yet, because men are misled, they celebrate a pagan worship in the holy name of Christ. Out of their ignorance, they have exalted the goddess of orgies as a thing of Christ. Be not offended because I call you ignorant: for we all were once ignorant, then came Jesus, who sacrificed his life for us, that we might become like him, resurrected to life, which is the wisdom and knowledge of the truth. By reason of the sacrifice offered by Christ, we are no longer men led by the darkness of our ignorance, but by the light that is truth and wisdom. So in a world governed by darkness and lies, we are unwelcome men on this earth; because we reveal the knowledge of the truth; even the secrets, and mysteries, and hidden wisdom of God. We are despised by the men of this world; because we have made their place uncomfortable with our testimony for Jesus Christ. And because we are the first among equals, we are labeled by many as self-centered men. So be it then: for we are not raised to be accepted, but rejected, that the prophecy of the regeneration be fulfilled. Nevertheless, our names shall be remembered, if only by one man. Is that not enough in the eyes of God?

I pray for you that are in Israel, and for you that are among the Gentiles, that you build yourselves a spiritual house on a stone of truth, which is a holy priesthood, that you offer up spiritual sacrifices, which are the things acceptable to God. For is not to love one another a spiritual sacrifice, as the love for all the commandments of God is a spiritual sacrifice; even the work of charity? Hence, what then is an acceptable sacrifice, except to communicate, and to do good. For it is surely written: ⌠But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased■ (Hebrews 13:16). And is it not also written: ⌠And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity■ (I Corinthians 13:13). So what is the purpose of a rich man, but to give his riches to a poor man: for charity is indeed greater than faith. Surely if we are commanded to love one another, then are we not also subject to serve one another, and to provide for the needy among us?

Now if a rich man should take his riches and burn them, has he made an acceptable sacrifice to God? Nay: for what sacrifice has one made when they neglect the poor and needy among them. Have they not committed a selfish act? Verily, if a man be rich, should he not give of his riches to the poor and needy among the saints? We who are called and chosen in the Spirit of the Lamb and his apostles, need nothing, neither seek anything, but an open ear. For with such all provisions are given: because an open ear is resurrected in love, and hope, and faith, and charity. I pray you be found with an open ear: for the trumpet has sounded: and the voice of truth is calling all tribes into the Oneness of Christ Body. So let the tribe of Judah rise: and the tribe of Levi: and the tribe of Benjamin, and the tribe of Aser, and the tribe of Reuben, and the tribe of Manasses, and the tribe of Simeon, and the tribe of Nephthalim, and the tribe of Zabulon, and the tribe of Issachar, and the tribe of Joseph, and the tribe of Gad. And if the ignorance of a man should say, Where is the tribe of Ephraim and Dan? I speak unto him as one that has been redeemed from ignorance, and as one with the knowledge of the truth: When king Solomon of the tribe of Judah died, the tribe of Ephraim who made Jeroboam their king, led the house of Israel away from the tribe of Judah (I Kings 12:1-19). And Jeroboam, an evil seed with the art of deceit, built two idols of evil worship and sat one in Beth-el, and the other in Dan (I Kings 12:25-30). Thus, the Lord turned His hate to the seed of Ephraim and Dan. But there was no altar more evil in all of Israel than the altar in Beth-el, whose altar in the regeneration stand in Suffolk, Virginia.

Now here these words concerning both Ephraim and Dan, that you might know I speak not of my own words, but according to that which is already written:

⌠And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim■ (Jeremiah 7:15).

⌠The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein■ (Jeremiah 8:16).

Such is the reason why Ephraim and Dan are not written among the names of the tribe of Israel in the book of Revelation. I pray that the righteous seed of Ephraim take his place in the hand of Joseph: and that the righteous seed of Dan take his place in the hand of Levi. I pray for you my brothers, that you come from out of a dead seed, whose resurrection can only be damnation.

Beloved children of God: If we put away the things of flesh, not to be snared by the lust thereof, have we not made a spiritual sacrifice? For if we put away the things of flesh, which is envy, jealousy, selfishness, foolish pride, egotism, adultery, fornication, filthiness, wantonness, idolatry, witchcraft, strife, seditions, heresies, hatred, at variance, greed, a drunkard, a murderer, a liar, a thief, and all manner of sin: have we not taken up spiritual things and made a worthy sacrifice? So let us not be ashamed to be ignored by the keepers of flesh: for our sacrifice is also humiliation. We offer up our meekness, and the holding of our peace, as a sacrifice to our Father, and to His Christ. We are not ashamed of the testimony we give; neither are we discouraged by the lack of listeners.

As I stand at the end of another year of sacrifice, I thank God for my suffering: for through my suffering do I learn God▓s love. Surely no man can come unto the Lord without sacrifice: for Christ Jesus said: ⌠For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another■ (St. Mark 9:49-50). So we sacrifice that we have salt in ourselves; and we endure that we do not lose the savor of our salt. And if Jesus preached for three years in flesh, how many years must I preach, being that I am not greater, nor equal to him, in flesh or spirit?

I beseech no man to believe this testimony, but pray that his ear be open. For as men search the Scriptures to dispute my testimony, I say this: Paul wrote: ⌠For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away■ (I Corinthians 13:9-10). Perfect my brothers and sisters is the gospel of Jesus Christ by the letter: for all things written among the Scriptures in red letters is perfect. Perfect has never left, but has been made new to you, because Christ has sent me a sacrifice for his blood to guide you into all truth, and to bring all things to your remembrance. The mysteries and secrets, even the hidden wisdom, is that the days of Jesus must be repeated in modern times: such is why the prophecy of Christ has not been fulfilled. I am a sacrifice for Christ blood as all who worship in spirit and in truth is a sacrifice for Christ blood. For Christ is in us all, and has sent us all from the resurrection of his name, to wash the feet of all men, women, and children, that seek the kingdom of God.

I speak these words to those that call this movement a cult: There are no fools in the Church of God; neither are we led by fear, save the fear of God Almighty. For we speak not of the prophecy in Revelation to scare men, but to show men the things to come; not according to our word; but according to the word of the Lord. For we speak nothing new of the prophecy; but according to the mystery of Revelation.

Children of the Most High: Let no man think I celebrate the accomplishments of myself: for I celebrate nothing but the joy of seeing another Sabbath. I am thankful to God for giving me His Spirit of Grace: knowing that I am a true servant of His covenant. Verily, I am not a man of foolish pride, neither any ego that is egocentric. I am humble and meek in nature; but with the mind to know that wisdom must always overshadow love.

As we embark on a new year, let us remember the sacrifices that were made and given, that we might remember the love of our brother and sister, our mother and father, our friend and neighbor, even the stranger in the midst. Let us remember and not forget how Christ sacrificed his life for our sins, that we might live through him; not as a servant, but as a fellow heir. Let us bow our heads and offer up an acceptable sacrifice to God, which are these words: O Heavenly Father, we pray in your Holy Name, and for Christ sake: May you keep us in the way of righteousness, and from the things that make us spotted and wrinkled, that we be presented faultless before the presence of your glory with exceeding joy. May we always keep your Sabbath, and your Holy Days. May we uphold your commandments, and honor your Truth. May we always remember the sin from which we came that we go back no more. To the only wise God, our Lord and Savior, Amen.

The love of Jesus Christ is with you all!